Split Rock: (Satellite, the old tunnel has been overgrown by trees)
Christie Pasieka posted two images with the comment:
Lock 13Story of Lock 13I have been creating a series of art pieces of history no longer standing, this is one of them below.
Don Lavotny: As a kid in the 1960s I remember riding my bicycle along the towpath east from LaSalle and finding the abutments which must have once been lock 13. At the time I had no clue what it was for.
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Christie's post Could someone drop a pin on a map and share the URL for the location of this lock? Not even the Illinois Department of Natural Resources knows where the lock is. https://dnr.illinois.gov/.../doc.../imcanalwesthuntermap.pdf Christie Pasieka: Dennis DeBruler right about where the 93 is in the map. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Christie's comment Thanks. Judging from this 1937 aerial photo, https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/.../0bwy03036.jpg, it was about a third of the way from the creek crossing to Split Rock. I wonder why they built a dam and flooded the lock. |
Flooding the lock with a dam explains why the canal is so wide at the lock in Joe Balynas' Flickr photo.
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